Maxim Kutkin

Maxim Kutkin (1969-2002) was a Russian criminal who was affiliated with both the Russian Mafia organization run by his father-in-law, Lukyan Barsukov, and the Azerbaijani "Oil Mafia".

Biography
Maxim Kutkin was born in Tula, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union in 1969, and he served in the Soviet Army during the Soviet-Afghan War. Kutkin established connections with drug traffickers in Central Asia during his military service, and he became a drug and arms smuggler after the war's end. In 1998, he married the daughter of Russian Mafia boss Lukyan Barsukov, making him a powerful criminal. Kutkin associated himself with Azerbaijani crime boss Samed Vezirzade during his anti-West crusade in 2002, and he attempted to buy weapon-grade plutonium from Russian Army colonel Viktor Rudenko in Murmansk. Barsukov eventually came to despise the sadistic Kutkin, and he fed the Rainbow counterterrorist team with tips on Kutkin's plans, as he believed that Kutkin was plotting against him. The exchange of the money for the bombs was ambushed and foiled, and Kutkin attempted to set off a nuclear reaction at a power plant as Rainbow operatives hunted him down. Kutkin was killed by the Rainbow operatives before he could start a Chernobyl-like explosion.